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A Voice in the Wilderness

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. -- William O. Douglas

Monday, January 29, 2007

If Everyone Cared Lyrics - Nickelback


If Everyone Cared Lyrics
Nickelback

From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
Confusing stars for satellites
I never dreamed that you'd be mine
But here we are, we're here tonight

Singing Amen, I'm I'm alive (I'm alive)
Singing Amen, I'm alive

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died

And I'm singing

Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive
Amen I,Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive


And in the air the fireflies
Our only light in paradise
We'll show the world they were wrong
And teach them all to sing along

Singing Amen I, I'm alive (I'm alive)
Singing Amen I, I'm alive

And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what the world could be

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died


We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day when nobody died

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Friday, January 26, 2007

Sunday Kind of Love - Etta James

Happy Birthday Miss Etta

Sunday Kind of Love
Etta James
b. 25 January 1938

I want a Sunday kind of love
A love to last past Saturday night
And I'd like to know it's more than love at first sight

And I want a Sunday kind of love

Oh yea yea


I want a - a love that's on the square

Can't seem to find somebody

Someone to care

And I'm on a lonely road that leads to no where

I need a Sunday kind of love


I do my Sunday dreaming, Oh yea

And all my Sunday scheming

Every minute, every hour, every day



Oh I'm hoping to discover

A certain kind of lover

Who will show me the way


And my arms need someone

Someone to enfold

To keep me warm when Mondays and Tuesdays grow cold
Love for all my life to have and to hold
Oh and I want a Sunday kind of love

Oh yea yea yea


I don't want a Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, or Thursday, Friday or Saturday

Oh nothing but Sunday oh yea

I want a Sunday Sunday

I want a Sunday kind of love

Oh yea

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday kind of loooove

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Monday, January 22, 2007

Never Quit

Last Kiss - Alabina - Prayer


Last Kiss
Alabina - the voice of Ishtar

Desert has called out my name.
I should go out there again
so I could hear somebody pray,
and prayers will follow me yes.

Ya hawa mali m' dounya
[***Oh air (passion) I'm not concerned about the world]

Wessnin wannaa mashya

[And the years and I are going on]

Hayranna fill sahara

[Wandering in the desert]

Annaa...

Chorus:
Would you carry me
Faithfully over the seas
I'll open the sky
To kiss you goodbye
Fly…


You gave up and you sacrificed
You wanted to be with the stars
so no one can read in your eyes
but have you said all your goodbyes?

Ya hawa mali m' dounya
[Oh air (passion) I'm not concerned about the world]

Wessnin wannaa mashya

[And the years and I are going on]

Hayranna fill sahara

[Wandering in the desert]

Annaa...

Won't you carry me
..carry me...
Faithfully over the seas
...faithfully...
I'll open the sky
To kiss you goodbye
Fly…


Ya hawa oohh…
[Oh air (passion)]

… ayyy mashya
[going on]

Would you carry me
faithfully, over the seas
I'll open the sky
to kiss you goodbye
Fly…

[Repeat]

Kiss you goodbye,

Fly...

***Thank you Nasra al Adawi - Iamnasra for your translation.

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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues


Nights in White Satin
Moody Blues

Nights in white satin
never reaching the end.
Letters I've written
never meaning to send.
Beauty I'd always missed
with these eyes before.
Just what the truth is
I can't say anymore


'Cause I love you,
yes I love you,
oh, how I love you.

Gazing at people
some hand in hand
just what I'm going though
they can't understand.

Some try to tell me
thoughts they cannot defend
just what you want to be
you'll be in the end.

And I love you,
yes I love you,
oh, how I love you.

Nights in white satin
never reaching the end.
Letters I've written
never meaning to send.
Beauty I'd always missed
with these eyes before.
Just what the truth is
I can't say anymore


'Cause I love you,
yes I love you,
oh, how I love you.


'Cause I love you,
yes I love you,
oh, how I love you...

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Friday, January 19, 2007

Takin' it to the Streets - Michael McDonald


Takin' it to the Streets
Michael McDonald

You don't know me but I'm your brother
I was raised here in this living hell
You don't know my kind in your world but,
fairly soon the time will tell...


You, telling me the things you're gonna do for me.
Well, I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see.
Takin' it to the streets. Takin' it to the streets,
Takin' it to the streets. No more need for runnin',
Takin' it to the streets. Oh no no,


Take this message to my brother
You will find him everywhere
Wherever people live together
Tied in poverty's despair



Oh you, telling me the things you're gonna do for me.
I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see.
Takin' it to the streets. Takin' it to the streets,
Takin' it to the streets. No more need for runnin',
Takin' it to the streets. Takin' it to the streets.
Takin' it to the...

[instrumental]



Oh you, telling me the things you're gonna do for me - yeah how
I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see.


Takin' it to the streets. Takin' it to the streets,
Takin' it to the streets. No more need for runnin',
Takin' it to the streets. Hey Yeah.
Takin' it to the streets. Takin' it to the streets.
Takin' it to the streets. We'll discuss it further.
Takin' it to the streets. Oh now.
Takin' it to the streets. Takin it, takin it .
Takin' it to the streets. Hey yeah now
Takin' it to the streets. Takin it to the streets.


Takin' it to the streets. No more need for runnin'.
Takin' it to the streets. No more need for violence.
Takin' it to the streets. Hey yeah yes.
Takin' it to the streets. No now.
Takin' it to the streets. Yeah yeah.
Takin' it to the streets. Takin' it, takin' it.
Takin' it to the streets. Ahh.
Takin' it to the streets. Takin' it now.
Takin' it to the streets. Oh no more.

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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Finish Each Day - Emerson


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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Gabriel's Message

The angel Gabriel from heaven came,
His wings as drifted snow, his eyes as flame;
'All hail', said he, "thou lowly maiden Mary,
Most highly favour'd lady,
Gloria!

'For known a blessed Mother thou shalt be,

All generations laud and honour thee,
Thy son shall be Emmanuel, by seers foretold,
Most highly favour'd lady,
Gloria!

Then gentle Mary meekly bowed her head,

'To me be as it pleaseth God', she said,
'My soul shall laud and magnify His holy name,
Most highly favour'd lady,
Gloria!


Of her, Emmanuel the Christ, was born,

In Bethlehem, all on a Christmas morn,
And Christian folk throughout the world
will ever say:
Most highly favour'd lady
Gloria!

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Want Change?


“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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Sunday, January 14, 2007

Cómo Me Duele Perderte - Gloria Estefan

Cómo Me Duele Perderte
Gloria Estefan

Cómo duele el dìa nublado!
cómo el tiempo es tan pesado! sí
porque a diario pienso en ti.
qué bien grita el silencio!
qué bien duelen los recuerdos! sí
porque todo habla de ti.

qué delicia tu sensualidad!
qué locura cuando te sentia muy de cerca,
y ahora que estas lejos hasta el universo ha muerto!

cómo fue que tu dejaste de querer?
te olvidaste del ayer,
de nuestras miradas de nuestra piel?
no te duele asi perder
lo que fue perfecto y acordado fiel?

lo que me queda por decir
es cómo duele perderte ay! ay! ay!
cómo me duele...

qué pequeño se hace el cielo!
qué humillante es el deseo, sí
porque ya no estás aqui!

qué sincero se hace el frío
como hiel mi sufrimiento!
ya no se lo que es vivir!

qué delicia tu sensualidad!
qué locura cuando te sentia muy de cerca,
y ahora que estas lejos hasta el universo ha muerto!

cómo fue que tu dejaste de querer?
te olvidaste del ayer,
de nuestras miradas de nuestra piel?
no te duele asi perder
lo que fue perfecto y acordado fiel?

lo que me queda por decir
es cómo duele perderte ay! ay! ay!
cómo me duele perderte!

qué delicia tu sensualidad!
qué locura cuando te sentia muy de cerca,
y ahora que estas lejos hasta el universo ha muerto!

cómo fue que tu dejaste de querer?
te olvidaste del ayer,
de nuestras miradas de nuestra piel?
no te duele asi perder
lo que fue perfecto y acordado fiel?

lo que me queda por decir
es cómo duele perderte ay! ay! ay!
cómo me duele perderte!

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The Impossible Dream


The Impossible Dream
[from MAN OF LA MANCHA - 1972]

music by Mitch Leigh & lyrics by Joe Darion
sung by - Luther Vandross


To dream the impossible dream

To fight the unbeatable foe

To bear with unbearable sorrow

To run where the brave dare not go


To right the unrightable wrong

To love pure and chaste from afar

To try when your arms are too weary

To reach the unreachable star


[Double click on the pic for an enlarged image]
This is my quest
To follow that star

No matter how hopeless

No matter how far


To fight for the right

Without question or pause

To be willing to march into Hell

For a heavenly cause


And I know if I'll only be true

To this glorious quest

That my heart will lie peaceful and calm

When I'm laid to my rest


And the world will be better for this

That one man, scorned and covered with scars

Still strove with his last ounce of courage

To reach the unreachable star

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Life is never easy


“Life is never easy for those who dream.”
Robert James Waller

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Last Kiss - Alabina


Last Kiss
Alabina - the voice of Ishtar

Desert has called out my name.
I should go out there again
so I could hear somebody pray,
and prayers will follow me yes.

Ya hawa mali m' dounya
[***Oh air (passion) I'm not concerned about the world]

Wessnin wannaa mashya

[And the years and I are going on]

Hayranna fill sahara

[Wandering in the desert]

Annaa...

Chorus:
Would you carry me
Faithfully over the seas
I'll open the sky
To kiss you goodbye
Fly…


You gave up and you sacrificed
You wanted to be with the stars
so no one can read in your eyes
but have you said all your goodbyes?

Ya hawa mali m' dounya
[Oh air (passion) I'm not concerned about the world]

Wessnin wannaa mashya

[And the years and I are going on]

Hayranna fill sahara

[Wandering in the desert]

Annaa...


Won't you carry me

..carry me...
Faithfully over the seas
...faithfully...
I'll open the sky
To kiss you goodbye
Fly…


Ya hawa oohh…
[Oh air (passion)]

… ayyy mashya
[going on]

Would you carry me
faithfully, over the seas
I'll open the sky
to kiss you goodbye
Fly…

[Repeat]

Kiss you goodbye,

Fly...

***Thank you Nasra al Adawi - Iamnasra for your translation.

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Saturday, January 06, 2007

Social Justice

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
Pope John Paul II

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Desiderata - Desired things


Desiderata
1927 by Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.


Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.


Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.


Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection.

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.


Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.


Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.


You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.


Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.


With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Monday, January 01, 2007

Happy New Year; Auld Lang Syne - 'Old Long Ago'


Auld Lang Syne
‘Old Long Ago’

Should old acquaintances be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?

And there's a hand my trusty fiere,
And there is a hand my trusty friend,
And gie's a hand o thine
And give me a hand of yours
And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught,
And we will take of a good drink/toast,
For auld lang sin
For old long ago

For auld lang syne, my dear
For old long ago, my dear
For auld Lang syne,
For old long ago
We'll tak a cup o kindness yet,
We will take a cup of kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!

For old long ago!
We twa hae run about the braes
We two have run about the hills
And pou'd the gowans fine,
and pulled the daisies fine,
But we've wander'd monie a weary fit
but we've wandered many a weary foot
Sin auld lang syne
since old long ago

For auld lang syne, my dear
For old long ago, my dear
For auld Lang syne,
For old long ago
We'll tak a cup o kindness yet,
We will take a cup of kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!
For old long ago

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